Display rack



C. E. SMITH DISPLAY RACK June 26, I934.

Filed Aug. 7, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet l Inventor {LY/770% flllorney June 26, 1934. c. E. SMITH DISPLAY RACK Filed Aug. 7, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June 26, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DISPLAY RACK Claude Edward Smith, Forest Grove, Oreg.

Application August 7, 1933, Serial No. 684,055

2 Claims. (01. 211) This invention relates to a novel display rack boxes as well as the lower boxes are identical in which is especially but not necessarily, adapted construction and include the tapered side walls to support and conveniently display a plurality and are open at their upper ends to accommoof different grades of patterns of small scatter date the easily removable relatively stiff indi- 5 rugs, vidual scatter rugs 14. The lower boxes or racks The rack is particularly designed to accommoare secured to arms or strips 15 which are in turn date and conveniently show so-called small scathingedly connected as at 16 to the lower frame. ter rugs constructed of linoleum, congoleum and The upper open ends of these racks which inequivalent relatively stiff self sustaining types. cline inwardly bear against what may be desig- 10 So far as has been ascertained rugs of this hated and distinguished as an abutment frame variety are stacked and otherwise piled in rather 17. As shown in dotted lines the lower box like haphazard manners and handled in a wear prorack 11 may be swung out to the positions illusducing disorderly way by salesmen and customtrated and clear of the lower ends of the upper ers. Therefore I have discovered and conboxes to facilitate placement and removal of 15 structed what I believe to be a revelation in this rugs.

line of endeavor in that it embodies ingenious Briefly consideredIha-ve evolved and produced features carefully selected and operatively fitted a portable roller equipped structure embodying in place to provide for logical and systematic disuprights provided with a group of four distinplay and handling purposes, and in accomplishguishable frames namely the base frame 5 on ing this result I have perfected an arrangement roller 6, the top supporting frame 8 for the upper thought to be new because of its ability to acracks 10 and the intermediate retention frame 9 commodate eight or more different groups of rugs for the lower end portions of said racks 10. Then conveniently sub-divided and displayed for exjust beneath the frame 9 is what is designated peditious selection and sale purposes. and distinguished as the abutment frame 17, this 25 Other features and advantages will become being a rest or sustaining device for the upper more readily apparent from the following deswingable end of hingedly mounted boxes or racks scription and drawings. 11. With this arrangement I provide upper and In the drawings: lower sets of boxes the upper ones being rigidly Figure 1 is a top plan View of a rack constructed mounted and inclined to a convenient display 30 in accordance with the principles of the present position and the lower ones normally maintained invention. in an inclined state and hingedly mounted in Figure 2 is an elevational view thereof. place in such a way as to permit the upper ends Figure 3 is a view in section end elevation disto be swung outwardly for convenient placement closing the assemblage of parts more in detail. and removal of the rugs.

35 As shown in particular in Figure 3 the struc- It is thought that a multiple type rack of this ture is characterized by an openwork arrangeform is characterized by simplicity and convenment of parts which may be distinguished as inience and embodies features of accommodation eluding four vertical uprights 4 secured to and and adaptation which transcend those of similar rising from a base frame 5. The frame 5 is proarrangement. Hence it is particularly well fitted,

40 vided with transporting and turning casters 6. correctly balanced and mechanically made to ful- The uprights 4 are partly maintained in assemfill the requirements of a structure of this class. bled relationship through the instrumentality of A careful consideration of the foregoing deappropriate braces "I. The numeral 8 designates scription in conjunction with the illustrative a snug fitting relatively small top frame. The drawings will enable the reader to obtain a clear 45 numeral 9 designates an intermediate frame understanding of the purpose, features and adsomewhat of the same proportion as the base vantages, the explicit construction, and the invenframe 5 and located at about the center of the tion as hereinafter claimed. uprights 4. The racks are divided in two dis- It is to be understood that minor changes in tinguishable groups, namely the upper rigidly shape, size, relative proportions, and materials 50 mounted racks 10 and th low d y may be resorted to in practice without departing mounted racks 11. These racks 10 are in th from the spirit of the invention or the scope of form of vertically elongated boxes 12 nailed or the invention as new laimed, otherwise secured as at 13 to the uppermost frame Having thus described my invention, what I 8 and inclining downwardly and resting against lai as new i 55 the intermediate stabilizing frame 9. These 1. A rug display device comprising a support,

a plurality of individual rug reception and retention racks, each rack being in the form of a vertically elongated box closed at its lower end, open at its upper end and provided with walls receding in width dimension toward the upper open end, said racks being arranged in upper and lower groups on the support, and each group embodying a. set of four distinguishable racks for convenient selection and display purposes, the lower racks being hingedly mounted on the support, the upper racks being rigidly mounted on the support.

2. In a structure of the class described, a base frame, a plurality of uprights attached to and rising therefrom, the uprights being arranged in horizontally spaced relation to provide a supporting structure of general rectangular form in cross sectional shape, a relatively small frame attached to and surrounding the upper end portions of said uprights, an intermediate frame attached to and surrounding the intermediate portions of the uprights disposed in superposed relation above the base frame, a plurality of open ended box like rugs supporting racks arranged in upper and lower groups, the upper racks being attached to and depending from said upper frame and resting at their lower ends on the intermediate frame, the lower racks being hingedly attached to the base frame and having their upper ends swingable outwardly.

CLAUDE EDWARD SMITH. 

